The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked Alabama from executing a man using nitrogen hypoxia, a relatively new method of carrying out the death penalty that experts say causes “air hunger” and that a ...

A federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama executing death row inmate Jeffrey Lee with nitrogen gas after finding that it violates the U.S. Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual ...

The method is meant to quickly stop a person's heart, but it can be botched. Attorneys for death row inmates in South Carolina say a man put to death by firing squad last year was conscious and likely ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked Alabama’s use of nitrogen hypoxia to execute a death row inmate who was convicted of killing two people in Dallas County, and Alabama ...